Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8038336 | Ultramicroscopy | 2014 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Correlative light-electron microscopy of cells in a natural environment of aqueous liquid facilitates high-throughput observation of protein complex formation. ASEM allows the inverted SEM to observe the wet sample from below, while an optical microscope observes it from above quasi-simultaneously. The disposable ASEM dish with a silicon nitride (SiN) film window can be coated variously to realize the primary-culture of substrate-sensitive cells in a few milliliters of culture medium in a stable incubator environment. Neuron differentiation, neural networking, proplatelet-formation and phagocytosis were captured by optical or fluorescence microscopy, and imaged at high resolution by gold-labeled immuno-ASEM with/without metal staining. Fas expression on the cell surface was visualized, correlated to the spatial distribution of F-actin. Axonal partitioning was studied using primary-culture neurons, and presynaptic induction by GluRδ2-N-terminus-linked fluorescent magnetic beads was correlated to the presynaptic-marker Bassoon. Further, megakaryocytes secreting proplatelets were captured, and P-selectins with adherence activity were localized to some of the granules present by immuno-ASEM. The phagocytosis of lactic acid bacteria by dendritic cells was also imaged. Based on these studies, ASEM correlative microscopy promises to allow the study of various mesoscopic-scale dynamics in the near future.
Keywords
EGFVGLUT1Cbln1PTAMEFsDDWPFANTDGluRδ2HRPCLEMeGFPDICASEMLIFPBSScanning TEMLead citrateFBSScanning EMBSEIFNsdouble distilled waterLABTannic acidPhosphotungstic acidBackscattered electronUranyl acetateImmuno-EMTeminterferonsLactic acid bacteriasinvesicular glutamate transporter 1N-terminal domainCNSDIVday in vitroStemembryonic stemfetal bovine serumDendritic cellEnvironmental cellgranule cellcentral nervous systemepidermal growth factorleukemia inhibitory factorphycoerythrinPhosphate-buffered salineSEMbone marrowmouse embryonic fibroblastsMegakaryocyteTransmission electron microscopyCorrelative light-electron microscopyOptical microscopyNeuronSilicon nitrideBEIparaformaldehydeHorseradish peroxidaseenhanced green fluorescence proteindifferential interference contrastGlutaraldehyde
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Authors
Kazumi Hirano, Takaaki Kinoshita, Takeshi Uemura, Hozumi Motohashi, Yohei Watanabe, Tatsuhiko Ebihara, Hidetoshi Nishiyama, Mari Sato, Mitsuo Suga, Yuusuke Maruyama, Noriko M. Tsuji, Masayuki Yamamoto, Shoko Nishihara, Chikara Sato,